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Course: Czech Literature in Film

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Course title Czech Literature in Film
Course code KLK/BLIFI
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional, Optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Krejčík Přemysl, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Composition poetics. Narration poetics. Poetics of subject and story. Poetics of character. Poetics of spatiality and periodicity.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
  • Contact teaching - 26 hours per semester
  • Practical training - 32 hours per semester
  • Home preparation for classes - 32 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The aim of this course is an interpretation of specific literary stories (the regular reading of these will be part of the seminar work); furthermore, this course involves analysis of both formal and meaning changes in the given field, changes that are caused by the transformation from literary work to its film adaptation. Individual titles (detailed layout will be introduced at the beginning of the course) should cross various genres and developmental periods of country production.
A graduate of this course will gain conception of possibilities how to interpret literary works by way of monitoring their relations to other area of art - cinematography. In the part I. the gained qualification will concern contacts of Czech literature and film.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Home assignment evaluation, Discussion

Credit is dependent on active participation in projections and seminar debates (only three absences are permitted per term); regular reading of the assigned texts; the oral presentation of a paper and its written version in the form of a seminar paper (5-10 pages in length).
Recommended literature
  • Česká a slovenská kinematografie 60. let (Filmový sborník historický 4). Praha, 1993.
  • Český hraný film I. (1898-1930). Praha, 1995.
  • Český hraný film II. (1930-1945). Praha, 1998.
  • Český hraný film III. (1945-1960). Praha, 2001.
  • Český hraný film IV. (1961-1970). Praha, 2004.
  • Film a literatura. Filmový sborník historický. Praha, 1998.
  • BERNADR, J.; FRÝDLOVÁ, P. Malý labyrint filmu. Praha, 1998.
  • CIESLAR, J. Kočky na Atalantě. Praha, 2003.
  • HODROVÁ, D. a kol. Na okraji chaosu (Poetika literárního díla 20. století). Praha, 2001.
  • HOLANEC, V. 99 filmů moderní kinematografie. Praha, 2005.
  • CHATMAN, S. Příběh a diskurs. Narativní struktura v literatuře a filmu. Brno, 2008.
  • CHATMAN, S. Rétorika narativu ve fikci a filmu. Olomouc, 2000.
  • KOPAL, P. (ed.). Film a dějiny. Praha, 2004.
  • MONACO, J. Jak číst film (Svět filmů, médií a multimédií). 1988.
  • MRAVCOVÁ, M. Literatura ve filmu. Praha, 1990.
  • PTÁČEK, L. Panorama českého filmu. Olomouc, 2000.
  • THEIN, K. Rychlost a slzy (Filmové eseje). Praha, 2002.
  • TÖTEBERG, M. (ed.). Lexikon světového filmu. Praha, 2006.


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University of Pardubice, date of update: 15.03.2026 23:50. Data created for academic year 2025/2026